Another PSP8 tutorial. As always, I was looking for something completely different when I found out about this little effect. Never mind about the German screenshots. The settings stay the same and you just have to fill them in in the same spots.

We start with a new graphic:

Activate the text tool and enter the following settings in the info menu at the top of the PSP window:

Fill the text (which is always the background setting) with a red gradient:

Click into the graphic to bring up the entry window. Use whatever text you like:

After entering the text, your text will show up surrounded by "marching ants" (double check your text settings: it should say something like "free selection"). Since we want to use it as a new layer right-click onto "Floating selection" in the layer palette (usually lower right of the PSP window) and choose "Promote to layer" from the option menu:

Afterwards you have a new layer in the layer list:

It's important that you keep the text layer selected since we want to go on working with it.

Next we use an inner bevel effect on the text. For that you click "Effects"/"3D effects"/"Inner Bevel". Use the following settings:

The result looks like this:

Now we get to the interesting point in our tutorial: Concentric Waves. Click "Effects"/"Distortion"/"Concentric Waves" (menu titles may vary) and use the following settings:

Click OK and go to "Effects"/"3D effects"/"Drop Shadow" and enter the following settings:

That's it: Melted text like cheese on the stove:

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